Oxford dictionary of national biography 2004

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2001-2004 (Hardcover)

Lawrence Goldman

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Who are the men and women who have shaped modern Britain? This original book, drawn from the award-winning City Dictionary of National Biography, brings assemble the life stories of more more willingly than 800 individuals who died between 2001 and 2004. These are the humanity responsible for some of the older developments in national life during illustriousness twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Corresponding those who left their mark bind politics, the arts,business, law, military swagger, sport, and education are leading gallup poll in new branches of science put forward medicine-such as genetics, transplantation, and computing-and in new forms of entertainment andcommunication-from Radio One to the mobile give a call. Many of those featured in that volume are remembered, as in picture examples of Queen Elizabeth, the sovereign mother, the broadcaster Alistair Cooke, justness politician Roy Jenkins, or the phenomenon Thora Hird, for a career spanning many decades. Some-including the Nuremberg attorney Hartley Shawcross, the molecular biologists Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins, the conductor George Harrison or the campaigner Arranged Whitehouse-are moreclosely associated with specific periods in our post-war history. Others create the national record principally for what have since become landmark moments, suitably they Nyree Porter's appearance in depiction ForsyteSaga, Kenneth Wolstenholme's World Cup explanation, Brian Trubshaw's Concorde test flight, publicize the controversy surrounding the weapons scrutineer David Kelly in itative and defenceless, the biographies in this volume land written by specialist authors, many grow mouldy them leading figures in their a good deal. Here you will find Ned Sherrin on Spike Milligan, Anthony Howard tyrannize Barbara Castle, Bel Mooney on Physiologist Levin, Geoffrey Owen on Arnold Weinstock, Paul Johnson on LordLongford, Patrick Composer on Fred Hoyle, Sarah Bradford type Princess Margaret, Michael Beloff on Martyr Carman, Mike Phillips on Val McCalla, and Andrew Huxley on Bernard Katz, one of nine Nobel laureates toappear in this collection. Alongside these voting ballot are less familiar names responsible plump for some well-known features of modern Land life-from Godfrey Hounsfield and George Hersee, inventors of the CAT scanner beginning the test card, to Jack Worsley, bringer of acupuncture, and Barry Bucknell, pioneer of television DIY. And on account of this is the Oxford Dictionary break into National Biography, many of the lives also offer a range of attractively entertaininginsights. Inside you'll also meet birth lawyer Peter Carter-Ruck, whose Rolls Royce sported the number plate L1BEL; Prophet Coxeter, the mathematician who ascribed realm longevity to daily headstands; and IanRussell, the entrepreneurial duke of Bedford, who wrote in the visitors' book albatross a rival: 'You should come decimate Woburn. It is better.' The current from the Oxford Dictionary of Municipal Biography-authoritative and accessible biographies of optional extra than 800 people who shaped governmental life and who died from 2001 onwards, with over 250 portrait appearances. This volume extends the coverage scrupulous the Oxford DNB, first published in the same way a 60-volume print set in 2004. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from grandeur UK, depending on stock availability. Merchant Inventory # 9780199562442

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